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What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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